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hopsack
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noun
- a roughly woven fabric of wool, cotton, etc, used for clothing
- Also calledhopsacking a coarse fabric used for bags, etc, made generally of hemp or jute
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It was just as exquisite in its way, an iron-grey hopsack, with trousers for which I had had to peel three times, but it did not speak quite so plainly of functions and high assemblages.
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Weave B is known as the hopsack, and probably owes its name to being originally used for the making of bags for hops.
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